Faience bowl - image 1

Late Bronze Age III

Faience bowl

The figure of the woman in the interior of the cup is depicted in an Egyptian style. H. 1 9/16 in. (4 cm) diameter 5 1/2 in. (14 cm)

Date

1250 - 1150 BC

Accession No.

74.51.5074

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance

  • From Cyprus

References

  • Cesnola, Luigi Palma di. 1903. A Descriptive Atlas of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Vol. 3. pl. CVIII, 4, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company.Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 1574, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Foster, Karen Polinger. 1979. Aegean Faience of the Bronze Age. p. 50, n. 316, New Haven: Yale University Press.Karageorghis, Vassos, Joan Mertens, and Marice E. Rose. 2000. Ancient Art from Cyprus: The Cesnola Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. no. 99, p. 63, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.